Man dies - apparently fell near Muni train

Published 4:00 am, Friday, September 11, 2009

A man who was found gravely injured Thursday morning near Municipal Railway tracks apparently fell after exiting a train, a preliminary investigation has found. He later died.

Authorities still don't know exactly what happened.

Footage from an on-board video camera on the S-Castro train, which was headed back to a Muni yard, shows the man departing the southbound streetcar through the rear door, according to Muni officials who reviewed the images. The train was stopped near the intersection of Church and 22nd streets on the J-Church line.

The man is seen walking alongside the train in the same direction for 20 or 30 feet "and then appears to fall and is no longer visible in the video," according to a statement issued by Muni Thursday evening.

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The video also shows that other passengers on the train "appear to have noticed that something had happened but there is no indication that anyone alerted the Muni operator," the statement said. There is no record that the Muni operator contacted central control.

The person who found the victim called 911 a little after 9 a.m. Paramedics treated the victim at the scene before transporting him to San Francisco General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:28 a.m.

The victim, a San Francisco resident was 58 years old. Authorities did not release his name pending notification of his next of kin.

Investigators are attempting to locate witnesses, said Police Department spokesman Wilfred Williams. Anyone with information has been asked to call the Police Department's hit-and-run detail at (415) 553-1641.